My sweet, sexy Penny has a dark side. Just like me.I will have her. And then I will lose her, and suffer a lifetime of regret.

Rampage. Everyone loves him. He is Redemption's top heavyweight fighter and the biggest gossip in the gym. But he isn't the teddy bear everyone thinks he is. He's hiding a dark secret-and he hates himself for it.

Twice a week, Rampage transforms into Master Jack, a notorious dom only the most hard-core submissives will play with. How can he-a Southern gentleman, bred to respect and protect women-want to dominate them?

But Penny Worthington wants him. Beneath her pearls, kitten heels, and prim British exterior beats a tortured heart...Master Jack is the only one who can set her free.

Praise for Sarah Castille's Redemption series:"Emotionally charged, amazingly sexy, and flat out fantastic."-Fresh Fiction for Full Contact"Powerful. Gritty. And sexy beyond belief. Sarah is a true master!"-Opal Carew, New York Times bestselling author of His to Claim

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My sweet, sexy Penny has a dark side. Just like me.I will have her. And then I will lose her, and suffer a lifetime of regret.

Rampage. Everyone loves him. He is Redemption's top heavyweight fighter and the biggest gossip in the gym. But he isn't the teddy bear everyone thinks he is. He's hiding a dark secret-and he hates himself for it.

Twice a week, Rampage transforms into Master Jack, a notorious dom only the most hard-core submissives will play with. How can he-a Southern gentleman, bred to respect and protect women-want to dominate them?

But Penny Worthington wants him. Beneath her pearls, kitten heels, and prim British exterior beats a tortured heart...Master Jack is the only one who can set her free.

Praise for Sarah Castille's Redemption series:"Emotionally charged, amazingly sexy, and flat out fantastic."-Fresh Fiction for Full Contact"Powerful. Gritty. And sexy beyond belief. Sarah is a true master!"-Opal Carew, New York Times bestselling author of His to Claim

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First up, I have to say that I feel as though I have been waiting forever for more on our Redemption team. All I can say is please can we have more!!

Rampage has a dark side and Penny is sweet and innocent in his eyes. What he doesn't know is that Penny has survived much worse and come out on top. They both have secrets which could destroy the friendship and more if they allow it. Great read, couldn't put it down!! A must read in my opinion, but would recommend reading the other books in this series first, to give you an idea of how far this group of characters have come:)

Let me just say that the subject matter of this story isn't my cup of tea. I'm not an enormous fan of BDSM, but I absolutely HAD TO read this because Sarah wrote it. And I was not disappointed!

First of all, sexual content aside, this book brings up some pretty deep issues of self-mutilation and domestic abuse. While those are not pleasant topics, they added a great deal to the story by being the dark contrast to the light that Penny and Jack eventually found in each other.

Penny was so fun! Unsure of herself but also hilarious, I was really rooting for everything to work out for her. If anyone deserved a break, it was Penny.

Jack was great! Yes, he is also known as Master Jack, but he allowed his softer side to come out and play, which I loved. He, too, was fighting some demons, and Penny was just the perfect balance for him.

I met the whole crew at Redemption, and holy cow, I MUST go back and read this whole series! This book is totally a stand-alone, but this series is set in a gym full of alpha males who fiercely love their women...I just might have found my new favorite series :)

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I won't summarize, that's what the product description is for. But here's my take on the latest Redemption novel:

I like the story in this one, and all the complexities that these two had to deal with. I adored Penny and Rampage in previous books and while I wouldn't have paired them up initially, I was excited to see where their story led.

However, this book disappointed me. It doesn't read like Sarah Castille's usual work. For one it has both the male and female point of view, but more than that it simply didn't have the same style of writing. It almost seemed like it was written by someone else. It was a good story, but not what I was expecting from a Redemption novel. Rampage is even called Jack throughout most of the story, making the reader forget he's an MMA fighter other than some perfunctory fights and training scenes; mostly we see him in his sadist persona. He's a totally different person compared to how he was portrayed in previous books (and not just his appearance, where he's lost weight due to some "mysterious medical issue", which is the actual reason Castille gives). Castille only marginally explains the 180 by saying that his Dom side has been hidden on purpose from his friends and he's just been pretending to be the loud, happy-go-lucky fighter we've come to adore.

It also seems like there is contradictory information in this book compared to the others. For example, Obsidian isn't gay (apparently he had a fling with Amanda?), Penny's middle name changed from Ann to Grace, Amanda's law firm lost the flowered Victorian couch,etc. Yes, I understand these things aren't important to the plot but little details can elevate a story from being "good" to "great", and the discontinuity jolted me since I reread the previous three right before reading this one. Also there were several story points that were repeated, sometimes using the exact same phrases.

Finally, the ending ties up all the loose ends in a rush of half a dozen paragraphs, which wasn't very satisfying. I was particularly unimpressed with how Rampage's family is suddenly all ok, particularly since his brother is still married to his ex.

Overall, I'm not sure I would've bought this novel if I had known all this, which is a shame since I had been waiting for the next Redemption novel for 2 years. Don't get me wrong, I liked the story ok, but as a separate novel outside the Redemption series. If Castille write another Redemption book, I hope she gets back to the skill of the other three in the series.

Fighting Attraction is the fourth and final book in the Redemption series by Sarah Castillo, and of course, the first book I have read. After reading it, I went and bought all of the other books in the series. Though, I’m sad to see that Jack is the only dom in the bunch, hopefully the rest will still be just as good.

Jack “Rampage” Caldwell is new to the Redemption MMA family, and despite the fact everyone thinks he’s a teddy bear, he has a secret. Jack becomes Master Jack, Club Sin’s most sought after dom. Penny Worthington is attracted to Jack, and she finds out who he is when she has to deliver eviction papers for her boss to his boss, Master Damon.

Penny is intrigued by the club and comes back, but Jack makes it difficult for her, he doesn’t want her there. Club Sin is dealing with a bad real estate mogul who will stop at nothing to get his hands on their property. Penny wants Jack, Jack does his best to keep Penny away from his darkness, but Penny has demons all of her own.

This book was amazing! So full of drama, and reading about both Penny and Jack’s deep, dark secrets and how they deal was just a page-turning delight! I seriously couldn’t put down! I can’t wait to read the rest of the series, and I’ll certainly be re-reading this one!

I really enjoyed the complexities that Jack has. He has so many sides to him. He had the sides he was willing to show his friends and the outside world but there was another part of him the he kept hidden. A craving he has but yet too embarrassed to admit to even his closest friends. I loved that Pen was able to see Jack for all that he is. As stated above he isn't one type of man and in order to be with a man like him, you have to accept all of his sides.

Reading about Pen, it broke my heart. Here is the strong woman who has been so hurt all her life by important people that she feels like she needs to be able to control something. Hearing her pain and how she learns to deal with it broke my heart.

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS - Couldn't really get into this book. Rampage - AKA Jack - has the hots for British babe Penny but believes Penny is the exact opposite of him & his "kind". She is sweetness & light, delicate & feminine, soft & pretty. Definitely not the girl for him. When she spots Master Jack at work in Club Sin she knows they are kindred spirits. In the end their kink didn't exactly match. You can't just broadly say - I like pain with my pleasure, you like pain with your pleasure, we're soulmates! Jack has been disowned because of his honesty about what he likes in the bedroom. Penny's story is completely different since she uses pain to release the heartache she has been made to endure over & over again. I definitely preferred the first few books that balanced a MMA fighter's career with his real-life job with plenty of hot sex. I didn't find this kind of kink hot at all.

I am a big fan of this series. I've enjoyed all the books and characters. The books are written well and I think have good storylines. Penny and Jack's story was a little emotional and heartbreaking. They both had been betrayed and hurt. I am so glad they found what they were looking for and needing in each other. I still really like Ray. He's something special. I really hope there are more books to come.